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Reformat selection?

#1 Reformat selection?

Posted by: ander | Date: 01/07/2006 09:02 | IP: IP Logged

When I copy text from webpages and other files, it often has "forced" formatting with linebreaks at the end of each line, which I must remove manually.

PSPad has a Join Lines command, but when you select a whole file and use the command, it makes all the text a single huge paragraph.

What I'd really like is to select and reformat a whole file, but keep the blank lines between paragraphs---in other words, to reformat the file into its actual paragraphs. (This is what TextPad's "Reformat" command does, BTW.)

If this makes sense to you, Jan, do you think you could add it as an option for Join Lines---either in Settings, or in a dialog box that appeared when you used the command? Thanks for considering it.

Post Edited (01-07-2006 09:17)

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#2 Re: Reformat selection?

Posted by: ander | Date: 11/24/2011 23:00 | IP: IP Logged

Just checking on this again...

I guess you assume that when paragraphs are separated by empty lines (two or more linebreaks), it's an advantage for the Join command to remove all of them and merge all paragraphs into one. I mean, there must be circumstances where that's preferable, or you wouldn't make it work that way.

So how about adding a Reformat Paragraphs command, that would let you reformat the selected text without combining all of it? That would be really helpful. Thanks, Ander

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